Instead, they are treated as suspended losses from a former passive activity [Reg. 1.469-9(e)(2)].

I would definitely treat your question as 2 parts.  1) how do I pull out cash from equity.  2) how to best buy a second property. 

I wouldn't expect much cash flow here but if that isn't the primary concern rising prices, rising rents and prop 13 should treat you reasonably well.

$1K is fine, $2500 might be better.... depending on what kind of reserves you have and how to treat insurance. 

Personally I would trust tenants with an excellently trained animal over a tenant w/o one because the level of responsibility proves to me the tenant does not take owning a pet likely and would treat the rented space with respect.

I've always thought this was fair and how I would want to be treated if I was the tenant. 

They need to be out of the unit for about 3 hours.The treatment needs to include all units in order to be effective, as otherwise the roaches will migrate through walls to non-treated units. 

Money hard lenders have long-term 30 yr products as well as the typical short term products.They aren't treated the same and are completely different.

My main takeaway, treat RE sales like a business, not a job.

On one hand, whether the updates are done while you still live there or after you move out, they will be done before the property is placed in service for rental purposes and therefore treated the same for future taxes.On the other hand, if you are still living in the property, you jeopardize your claim that the updates are done in order to rent this property.